blunt, 90% solution to 'are two dirs the same' using filecmp

dirs_same_enough.py

def dirs_same_enough(dir1,dir2,report=False):
    ''' use os.walk and filecmp.cmpfiles to
    determine if two dirs are 'same enough'.
    
    Args:
        dir1, dir2:  two directory paths
        report:  if True, print the filecmp.dircmp(dir1,dir2).report_full_closure()
                 before returning
    
    Returns:
        bool
    
    '''
    # os walk:  root, list(dirs), list(files)
    # those lists won't have consistent ordering,
    # os.walk also has no guaranteed ordering, so have to sort.
    walk1 = sorted(list(os.walk(dir1)))
    walk2 = sorted(list(os.walk(dir2)))
    
    def report_and_exit(report,bool_):
        if report:
            filecmp.dircmp(dir1,dir2).report_full_closure()
            return bool_
        else:
            return bool_
    
    if len(walk1) != len(walk2):
        return false_or_report(report)

    for (p1,d1,fl1),(p2,d2,fl2) in zip(walk1,walk2):
        d1,fl1, d2, fl2 = set(d1),set(fl1),set(d2),set(fl2)
        if d1 != d2 or fl1 != fl2:
            return report_and_exit(report,False)
        for f in fl1:
            same,diff,weird = filecmp.cmpfiles(p1,p2,fl1,shallow=False)
            if diff or weird:
                return report_and_exit(report,False)
    
    return report_and_exit(report,True)